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FBI funding Sweden 'terror' research

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:28:00 +0100

Research grants to fund the study of controversial interrogation methods at the University of Gothenburg have come from America's Federal Bureau of Investigation, it has emerged.

CIA-backed IT firm offers view into the future

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:50:00 +0200

A CIA-backed Swedish-American company claims that it's new technology can predict disease, terrorist threats, economic swings and resource shortages. The Local’s Karen Holst explores.

CIA rendition deportee: 'Sweden is responsible'

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:12:00 +0200

Ahmed Agiza, who was flown out of Sweden to Egypt by the CIA in 2001 where he was imprisoned until last week, has claimed that Sweden needs to take responsibility for what happened to him.

Swedish prosecutor confirms US spy probe

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:51:00 +0200

Sweden's top prosecutor revealed on Tuesday that his office had previously opened a preliminary criminal investigation against US agents suspected of spying in Sweden in 2009.

Swedish MPs knew of undercover US agents

Thu, 26 May 2011 12:52:00 +0200

Several Swedish politicians knew that undercover US agents had been discovered in Sweden, according to a Swedish MP and member of the National Police Board.

Swedish ire stopped CIA 'terror flights'

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:13:00 +0100

Suspicions that the United States was transporting terror suspects via Sweden on clandestine flights resulted in a diplomatic crisis, according to documents released by WikiLeaks.

Call for probe into Sweden-CIA terror links

Fri, 08 May 2009 11:56:00 +0200

Two prominent Left Party politicians are calling for Sweden to set up an independent truth commission to look into how Sweden cooperated with the United States during the war on terror.

Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +0200

The government led by former Prime Minister Göran Persson knew that Sweden was used as a transit destination for clandestine CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists, according to a report in the Expressen newspaper on Friday.

Revealed: CIA spied on Swedish 'extremists'

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:29:00 +0200

Previously confidential documents released this week have revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out covert operations in Sweden in the early 1970s.

Sweden in u-turn on second CIA Egyptian

Wed, 16 May 2007 21:07:00 +0200

Sweden's government has reversed the official decision which led to the deportation of Egyptian Ahmed Agiza by CIA agents in 2001.

CIA Egyptian denied Swedish residency

Fri, 11 May 2007 20:58:00 +0200

Mohammad Alzery, an Egyptian who was controversially deported from Sweden to his homeland on a CIA plane in 2001 has had his application for Swedish residency turned down.

CIA Egyptian applies for Swedish residency

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:52:00 +0100

An Egyptian deported on a CIA plane from Sweden in 2001 has applied for a Swedish residence permit.

Persson regrets Egyptians' deportation

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:35:00 +0100

Sweden's former prime minister, Göran Persson, has said the deportation of two men by US agents to Egypt in 2001 should never have been put into practice.

Egyptian's deportation overturned

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:18:00 +0100

The decision to deport Egyptian Mohammed Alzery, who was controversially removed from Sweden by CIA agents, has been declared invalid by the Swedish government. Migration authorities will now re-examine his case.

Sweden broke torture ban during CIA deportation

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:13:00 +0100

Sweden broke the international ban on torture during the deportation of an Egyptian back to his home country in a CIA plane in December 2001.

EU report slams Sweden for CIA deportations

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:42:00 +0200

Sweden has been fiercely criticised in a preliminary report from the European Parliament committee investigating the use of European airports by the CIA for transporting suspected terrorists.

No proof of CIA planes in Sweden - report

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:13:00 +0100

There is no proof that planes used by the US CIA spy agency have landed at Swedish airports since 2002, a government-ordered report concluded on Thursday amid media speculation to the contrary.

Swede photographed suspected CIA plane

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:54:00 +0100

A photograph taken by a Swedish plane enthusiast has confirmed that a Hercules plane which is suspected of having been used by the CIA for prisoner transportation landed at Stockholm's Arlanda airport in May 2003.

CIA plane story unfounded - Freivalds

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:35:00 +0100

Foreign minister Laila Freivalds has dismissed claims that CIA planes could have landed at Swedish airports.

Sweden begins "quick" CIA plane investigation

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:42:00 +0100

Sweden launched an investigation on Thursday after reports that planes used by the US spy agency CIA landed at Swedish airports, the latest in a series of such probes by concerned European nations.